Post township, Allamakee County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 28 (3% naturalized citizens)
| Post township: | 28.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Post township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1395
- Northeast: 26
- Midwest: 181
- South: 65
- West: 28
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $33,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
61 people in nursing homes
14 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 640
- One, attached: 27
- Two: 57
- 3 or 4: 40
- 5 to 9: 42
- 10 to 19: 27
- Mobile homes: 57
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,900
Housing units in Post township with a mortgage: 251 (12 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 202
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Secondary school teachers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Post township:
- German (34.7%)
- Norwegian (11.2%)
- Ukrainian (6.0%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
- English (3.9%)
- Russian (3.8%)
- Irish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (56%)
- Ukraine (19%)
- Russia (9%)
- Other South Central Asia (5%)
- Israel (4%)
- Bangladesh (1%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 678 (58%)
- Carpooled: 199 (17%)
- Bicycle: 20 (2%)
- Walked: 219 (19%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (66%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (2%)
61 people in nursing homes
14 people in unknown juvenile institutions
66.4% of residents of Post township speak English at home.
16.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (10% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 68% don't speak English at all).
15.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (42% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (13% speak English very well, 75% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other language at home (40% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 35% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,309- In family households: 1,971 (509 male householders, 91 female householders)
510 spouses, 590 children (553 natural, 16 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 46 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 82 other relatives, 122 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 338 (100 male householders (68 living alone)), 151 female householders (142 living alone)), 87 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 75 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 280 2-persons, 95 3-persons, 109 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 32 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 210 1-person, 25 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 8 5-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
480 married couples with children.
62 single-parent households (24 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 11.2% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |